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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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